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Case history: hollywood barbara
Filed in Case history, May 1, 2009, 1:44 pmBarbara is a Hollywood entertainment executive specializing in the production of documentaries. She works long hours at her desk and also drives to many meetings, screenings, and other events. At age 52, after many years of the same habits, she developed lower back pain that sometimes was sharp. She adapted her chair at work by [...]
Case history: centralization in texas
Filed in Case history, April 20, 2009, 10:36 amWalt is from Texas. He is 54 years old and works as an insurance broker. For two months he had intermittent pain in the central and lower left back. This had come on for no apparent reason. It spread to his left buttock and thigh, and the symptoms were worse when he bent forward, sat, [...]
Case history: getting a lift
Filed in Case history, April 14, 2009, 12:14 pmFlorence is a 58-year-old cleaning lady who works at a physician’s office and who also babysits her grandchildren. She lives in Florida. She had distressing lower back pain for two and a half weeks, and had experienced lower back pain off and on for five years. The new episode began when she bent over in [...]
The lumbar roll
Filed in Back, April 12, 2009, 10:56 amThe lumbar roll should be no more than four to five inches (about 10-13 centimeters) in diameter before being compressed. It should be filled with foam rubber of moderate density so that when compressed its diameter reduces to about 1.5 inches (about four centimeters).
Correcting the sitting
Filed in Correct, April 10, 2009, 10:43 amSitting Correctly for Long Periods.
If you have pain resulting from factors other than just poor posture, you may need to do more than correct your posture. You may need to perform special exercises. In this chapter, I am describing only the exercises required to reduce postural stress and to obtain postural correction.
Case history: what a headache
Filed in Case history, March 25, 2009, 4:06 amColleen, from Ohio, is a 27-year-old customer service agent with an airline. She had pain in the neck and the right shoulder blade. There was no known cause for the pain. The pain radiated down her right arm to her thumb and she had occasional headaches. When she started the McKenzie program, she had had [...]
If you are an athlete
Filed in Back, March 16, 2009, 3:56 pmOften, the true cause of pain in athletes is that they adopt a slouched position after they have, in their athletic endeavor, thoroughly exercised their joints. After exertion, we usually sit down and relax: because we are tired, we almost immediately adopt the relaxed sitting posture. In other words, after vigorously exercising, we collapse “in [...]
Your body sags
Filed in Posture, February 20, 2009, 7:16 amPoor posture in sitting is by far the most common cause of pain and stiffness in the back and, for that matter, in the neck. Most everyone spends a greatdeal of time sitting: even if you do not spend most of your day behind a desk, you probably spend much of your evening in an [...]
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